RM4K: Red Camera Equipment Package

Digital Cinema Equipment Rental

Rocky Mountain 4K has put together a base digital cinema equipment rental package ideal for indy film production, but configurable for commercials and other projects that are budgeted to go the extra mile. Contact us for a quote on your specific project.

But we've also made sure that our Red camera can deal with commercial packages and bigger budget productions. We've got the PL front for the camera, the materials and the expertise for working with double-system sound and locking to timecode, we've got support for either 15mm or 19mm accessories, and more.

New! Canon 1D Mark IV – Available Dark

The latest addition to our package isn't Red at all — it's the new
Canon EOS 1D Mark IV HDSLR. Shoot HD at over ISO 100,000.
Yes, that many zeros.
The 1D joins our Canon 7D. Call for details, and see our
evolving HDSLR page.

Rocky Mountain 4K can configure a package to work with your budget. Let's talk — numbers at right.

Insurance Certificate: Please note that a production insurance coverage certificate is required whether we are on the shoot or not. We also require that — if we are not on the shoot — an AC, camera tech or cinematographer with demonstrable Red camera experience be a full-time part of your project. The Red is not a 'just pick it up and go' sort of camera.

Red Camera Equipment

What's in our package? Here's a detailed list:

Red One camera body (PL or Nikon mount)
Full Red Cage and cradle with 19mm, 15mm and 15mm lightweight support
Red LCD Monitor (5-inch)
Red EVF (Electronic View Finder) eyepiece with Zacuto ZRed mount
Red Drives (2) and 8GB (5) & 16GB (4) CF cards (16GB card = 1000' mag 35mm)
Red batteries (2) and charger (with AC adapter). AC power supply also included.
"Hot swap" dual V-mount battery adapter
XLR connector (12 feet) for standard 12v block batteries
SimVideo breakout box for HD-SDI and test signals (mini-BNC to BNC)
Audio mini-XLR to XLR adapters (3)
Timecode "Y" cable: two XLRs to Lemo five-pin.
Arri baseplate with 15mm rods (for use with 15mm Arri accessories)
Red baseplate with 19mm rods (for use with 19mm Arri accessories)
Custom baseplate for use with 15mm lightweight accessories
Viewfactor Origo remote start/stop and speed ramp switch
Sensor cleaning kit
Available: some 19mm and standard Arri 15mm accessories available locally

Lenses & Accessories - 11 to 200mm (Nikon mount)

Our own lens package is Nikon mount, but we can readily switch to a PL mount front.

Lens Rental package:

Our basic lens package consists of six lenses: the four Zeiss primes (below), the Nikon 17-35/2.8, and the Tokina 80-200/2.8, plus the lightweight mattebox and follow-focus, hot mirror filter and 80D filter. Other lenses can be added on an à la carte basis from the list below.

The new Carl Zeiss T* lenses in Nikon mount feature a large rotary angle of the focusing ring, allowing for the precise follow-focus mechanism familiar to anyone accustomed to cine lenses. We've equiped them with gearing for use with standard follow focus mechanisms. Classic Carl Zeiss glass ensures sharp, crisp pictures.

Zeiss Distagon T* 28mm/2.0
Zeiss Distagon T* 35mm/2.0
Zeiss Planar T* 50mm/1.4
Zeiss Planar T* 85mm/1.4

Tripod/Support note: The Red One is a hefty camera and not intended for lightweight heads and tripods. Our Cartoni head is sufficient for our lenses or for PL primes, but for a big zoom or lots of heavy accessories something more along the lines of an O'Connor 2060 or 2575 would be a better choice. A lightweight video tripod made for handycams would be an unwise choice.

We have assorted Nikon-mount primes and zooms (use as variable primes - see the note at right) from 11 to 200mm:

Nikon 17-35mm/2.8 ED zoom (included in basic package)
Nikon 55mm/2.8 macro
Nikon 105mm macro
Nikon 180mm/2.8
Tokina 11-16/2.8
Tokina 80-200/2.8 (included in basic package)
Tokina 28-200/3.5-5.3
Century Achromatic Diopters (+2.0 and +2.6, or combine for max effect)

The full range of PL-mount lenses (Super Speeds, Master Primes, Cookes, etc.) will work with the camera as well.

Lens accessories:

Lightweight two-stage mattebox (4x4) (one rotating stage)
Lightweight follow focus
Series 9 80D filter (an 80x filter is recommended if shooting in tungsten light)
4x4 1.2ND/IR filter (recommended if shooting in sunlight with heavy ND)
Assorted 4x4 and Series 9 filters as needed

Other Film Production Equipment Rentals

Rocky Mountain 4K can provide additional film / video production resources in addition to the camera and lens packages. We've got an assortment of basic motion picture support equipment (standard and baby tripods, high-hat, heads), plus more esoteric support gear (lightweight remote head, rigging, etc.)

HD critical monitor (Panasonic 17" BT-LH1700WPJ) (waveform; HD-SDI in)
HD client monitor (22" HDMI with Aja HD-SDI to HDMI converter)
Aja HD-SDI to HDMI converter
Cartoni 7+7 head (100mm bowl) and lightweight standards, babys and hi-hat
Lightweight motion control head (pan, tilt and track) capable of holding the Red
Apple Macintosh MacBook Pro with data transfer/backup software
Backup disk drives
Additional on-camera batteries (non-Red)
Portable lighting and grip kits
Assorted other film and video equipment (lightweight dolly, lightweight jib, etc.)

What About Zooms?

RM4K has configured a package for budget-concious indy filmmakers - making use of very expensive still camera lenses, rather than even more expensive PLs. These lenses, particularly the Zeisses, are still crisp and contrasty and equal in optical quality and speed to good PLs - it is Carl Zeiss glass after all.

But zooms made for still cameras are not made to hold focus through a zoom. It can be done by a good cameraman (Rich Lerner, for instance) but that capability means a very, very expensive lens - out of the realm of a lot of indy filmmakers who might like to shoot in 35.

So what we have instead are some seriously good primes and zooms intended for still cameras. Think of them as 'variable primes'.

And if you really have to have the zooms, we can do that, too. But at that point it's a PL kind of show (we can change the mount, but it's not something you want to do for just one or two shots).